Um, no, the post I was responding to couldn't have possible been being sarcastic unless their actual position was 'The idea that money and politics should not be mixed isn't naive.' As any sane person knows, the idea they shouldn't be mixed is naive, ergo, assuming that AC was a sane person (an assumption that is becoming less and less ground in fact on this site.), they were, in fact, not being sarcastic, as being sarcastic is saying one thing to communicate the opposite meaning. As they were saying one thing, and attempting to communicate that exact thing, it cannot be sarcasm.:)
Maybe you need to learn what sarcasm is too.;)
Let me guess, now you're going to claim you were being sarcastic.:)
Now, it could be claimed the post I responding to parent's post was set up in a deliberate manner to trick people, i.e., a troll. In which case, my original post would have been wrong, as it wouldn't be sarcasm anymore, but a lie.
Other free software is serviceable but of questionable overall quality and design, including gcc and others that I won't mention for fear of starting tangential flame wars.
gcc? GCC? GCC? Are you insane? gcc is one of the best compilers out there. It's the standard. I'm sure there are a few better ones that cost around 10,000 dollars, but, of all the compilers I've ever used, gcc is the one I want to use.
And there are lots and lots of Open Source projects that are complete and utter garbage, handily beat out by many commercial offerings.
Anytime anyone says somehting like this, I point them to winfiles.com and invite them to download a random application there. (I used to point them to SoftRAM 95, but no one remembers that anymore.):) Anytime you let anyone give out programs, you're going to get a lot of crap out there. This, in no way, makes everything crap. In fact, there's a law saying that 90% of everything is crap.
While some figures, most notably Linus Torvalds, have proven themselves to be software engineers of the highest caliber, there's a decided lack of experience among open source programmers.
Sadly, you are right. Also sadly, however, it is the same in commerial shops.
As for number 3, didn't we just have an artile about the lack of new game genres? And, may I point out, the games you listed are classic games. People like them because they grew up with them.
Someday, the moderators will actually figure out what's really going on. That day is not today.
Jeremiah, you missed, that's a link to part #2...he wanted part #3. Don't worry, I've made silly mistakes like that too. And it's not your fault you were modded up.
Go to: /usr/src/linux/kernel/sched.c
and search for 'make_netscape_crash' (about line 68) and comment out everything between the start and the end. Netscape hasn't crashed since then!
Vote turnout is decreasing and it isn't because people are apathetic, it is because they don't want to be responsible for putting a Bush in the White House, or backing a lame-ass like Gore.
Yeah, that plan really works. I'm sure the little known 'If lots of people don't vote in the election, no one gets elected' clause in the constitution will kick in any time now.
-David T. C.
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Oh yeah, not voting really sends a message, because they have some magic way of figuring out who was too lazy to vote and seperate it from the people who are protesting.
You know what it's really called? It's called rationalization. If you really don't want to legitimize the system, vote for Han Solo, vote for Clyde Barrows, or vote for the paper doll you have cut out of a newspaper and taped to your ballot. Not voting in 'protest' has exactly the same effect on society as being a lazy bum and sitting on your butt.
The problem is, there are people who actually want censorware installed on net connections. It's their tax money, too. Do we simply assume that we're right and they're wrong so the goverment should listen to us?
See, this is why I feel that calling this country a 'democracy' is a bad idea, it's like calling England a 'monarchy'. In reality, we're a constitutional democracy. Without the Constitution, we're just a bunch of idiots who will end up with all unpopular people in jail.:) In fact, I'd be real happy if we couldn't ever remove some protections from the government, unless every single person in the country voted for it. I get real worried someday that 66% of the 25% of Americans who vote (Which is, assuming I can still do math, less then 17%) will get together and outlaw flag burning, or spitting on crosses, or allowing 'disreputable people' to vote, or whatever the pet peeve is this week, and it will all go downhill from there. It's really sad that 17% of the population has what is supposed to be 66% of it. I actually want us to start punishing people who don't vote. Let's give everyone who votes 100 dollars. This measure should be easy to pass.:)
P.S. I actually like libraries getting my tax money...but, hey, that is the kind of stuff we need to vote on, not banning unpopular speech. I think they're needed, just like NPR, so we actually have a source of information that non-internet people can get to that isn't controlled by a huge conglomerate. But, I'll vote one way, and you can vote the other.:)
Erm, if Microsoft purchases either Helix or Easel, all their work is still out there. In a couple of weeks, all the purchased stuff would have new maintainers...in fact, a lot of the maintainers don't work for these companies anyway, so everyone would keep going without a ripple.
Likewise, if MS purchases TrollTech, then, AFAIK, Qt would still be out there, and free for noncommerical use...however, MS could simply stop selling Qt for commerical use, or make it 5,000 dollars per app sold, and, pretending we didn't have Gnome, completely destroy the Linux commerical software industry. This, BTW, is why I support Gnome. And, this is why glibc is LGPL and everything. Yes, it's better to have OSS then non-OSS software on your system, but having anything is better then nothing.
I believe that for a library to go from no-internet-connection to a censored-internet-connection is an improvement. Yes, it'd be far better if it was uncensored, but it's better than nothing.
While I'm tempted to make a comment about going from no sidewalks to censored-sidewalks, I won't.:)
I don't think filtered libraries are better then no libraries. I would rather have my tax money going to other things then have it go to buy censorware. I do not agree with the 'values' promoted by censorware, and I feel the constitution is on my side. I do not have to pay to protect myself and others from what they think is immoral.
I regard people who use censorware the same way I regard protestors outside gay nightclubs. They can certainly do that if they want, but don't expect me to like them for it. And certainly don't expect me to pay for it in a government institution.
And, BTW, libraries are not 'being generous to provide the connection in the first place', although it is nice when they decide a net connection is worth X books, because to those of us who know how to use a connection can probably provide X^N amount of information, where N is a number in double digits. Libraries are supposed to provide information and entertainment. They get my money, out of my paycheck, to do that. They are not supposed to use that money to restrict information and entertainment.
Actually, that's not analagous. We have lots of places to speak, other than through a sidewalk. We have college campuses, work, private convention centers, and places like the park and zoo, not to mention private houses.
All public libraries belong to the government. The government is required to allow free speech in public. Not that it always does, but that's rather offtopic.:) The government has that extra responsibility, because it has a monopoly - there are no other ways for people without computer and not in college and who work without a net connection.
They are completely different. Would you prefer we have privately owned libraries? Because that's exactly how bookstores are now. Maybe it would be better, I don't know.
It's only censorship if you are forcing it on someone. Making filtered sidewalks availiable isn't forcing anything on anyone. It's providing a service, not taking away a right. Where does the constitution promise us free sidewalks?
...That's one reason I'm not bothered when a city decides to make speaking against it illegal on public sidewalks. Their property, their choice. When a goverment agency mandates blocking speech on all sidewalks - well, that stinks, but I'm not sure whether it's censorship or not because arguably, the public sidewalks belong to the government...
Sigh. I love how stupid people claim difference in when a culture invented something show how smart it is. Hey, guess what? Inventions are invented by individuals and the culture they are in! And the culture is decided by many, many things, not intelligence. And I've suddenly realized this is a troll.
If this were inside a library, that would be different because that would be our tax dollars in action, so we should have some say in whether or not we want censorship.
Um, no, this would be when we didn't have a say in whether we wanted censorship, unless enough of the entire nation vote to grant exceptions to the 1st amendment.
Remind me again not to write messages when I just wake up. That first paragraph was before a shower, the second after, and this you can really tell. Now I'm actually glad Netscape closed my first response.:)
Don't you think that's just a little bit of a callous attitude?
Damnit, I wrote a nice response to this, and Netscape for some reason closed the window. Anyway, basically, many, many bad things happen to other people. These things do not harm us. Clild porn is one of them. I do not wake up, eat breakfast, get annoyed by child porn, and go to woke. I'd never get anything done if Ipayed attention to all the bad things in the world, I have to pick a few causes and stick with them. You cause seems to be child porn, which is great, it is a worthwhile cause.
That said, the only problem with you creating a solution to get rid of child porn is hampered by the a) I mentioned and you didn't: Anyone can get on the network, and anyone can share files. If you have a solution to that, speak up. Don't wail 'What about the child porn!'. That doesn't solve anything. Also, see this for why banning child porn on Gnutella won't help anything. In fact, now that I actually think more about it, I wish so many people would pirate child porn that the entire industry collapses.
No, I allowed the cop to search my car because my car was a total pig-sty, and I had nothing illegal in it. This of it as a DoS attack. Searching my car means not pulling over other cars, not to mention getting some really nasty stuff on his hands.:)
And, like I said, I'm pretty certain they can, legally search cars they pull over now. They still have to pull you over for a legit reason, though.
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Maybe you need to learn what sarcasm is too. ;)
Let me guess, now you're going to claim you were being sarcastic. :)
Now, it could be claimed the post I responding to parent's post was set up in a deliberate manner to trick people, i.e., a troll. In which case, my original post would have been wrong, as it wouldn't be sarcasm anymore, but a lie.
-David T. C.
gcc? GCC? GCC? Are you insane? gcc is one of the best compilers out there. It's the standard. I'm sure there are a few better ones that cost around 10,000 dollars, but, of all the compilers I've ever used, gcc is the one I want to use.
And there are lots and lots of Open Source projects that are complete and utter garbage, handily beat out by many commercial offerings.
Anytime anyone says somehting like this, I point them to winfiles.com and invite them to download a random application there. (I used to point them to SoftRAM 95, but no one remembers that anymore.) :) Anytime you let anyone give out programs, you're going to get a lot of crap out there. This, in no way, makes everything crap. In fact, there's a law saying that 90% of everything is crap.
While some figures, most notably Linus Torvalds, have proven themselves to be software engineers of the highest caliber, there's a decided lack of experience among open source programmers.
Sadly, you are right. Also sadly, however, it is the same in commerial shops.
As for number 3, didn't we just have an artile about the lack of new game genres? And, may I point out, the games you listed are classic games. People like them because they grew up with them.
-David T. C.
Okay, this is interesting and new. What's producing comments like this?
-David T. C.
Jeremiah, you missed, that's a link to part #2...he wanted part #3. Don't worry, I've made silly mistakes like that too. And it's not your fault you were modded up.
-David T. C.
Seems like they do the same thing.
-David T. C.
Go to:
/usr/src/linux/kernel/sched.c
and search for 'make_netscape_crash' (about line 68) and comment out everything between the start and the end. Netscape hasn't crashed since then!
-David T. C.
Yeah, that plan really works. I'm sure the little known 'If lots of people don't vote in the election, no one gets elected' clause in the constitution will kick in any time now.
-David T. C.
You know what it's really called? It's called rationalization. If you really don't want to legitimize the system, vote for Han Solo, vote for Clyde Barrows, or vote for the paper doll you have cut out of a newspaper and taped to your ballot. Not voting in 'protest' has exactly the same effect on society as being a lazy bum and sitting on your butt.
-David T. C.
Some day you will learn the meaning of 'sarcasm'.
-David T. C.
I should arrest you for not citing the law.
-David T. C.
See, this is why I feel that calling this country a 'democracy' is a bad idea, it's like calling England a 'monarchy'. In reality, we're a constitutional democracy. Without the Constitution, we're just a bunch of idiots who will end up with all unpopular people in jail. :) In fact, I'd be real happy if we couldn't ever remove some protections from the government, unless every single person in the country voted for it. I get real worried someday that 66% of the 25% of Americans who vote (Which is, assuming I can still do math, less then 17%) will get together and outlaw flag burning, or spitting on crosses, or allowing 'disreputable people' to vote, or whatever the pet peeve is this week, and it will all go downhill from there. It's really sad that 17% of the population has what is supposed to be 66% of it. I actually want us to start punishing people who don't vote. Let's give everyone who votes 100 dollars. This measure should be easy to pass. :)
P.S. I actually like libraries getting my tax money...but, hey, that is the kind of stuff we need to vote on, not banning unpopular speech. I think they're needed, just like NPR, so we actually have a source of information that non-internet people can get to that isn't controlled by a huge conglomerate. But, I'll vote one way, and you can vote the other. :)
-David T. C.
Likewise, if MS purchases TrollTech, then, AFAIK, Qt would still be out there, and free for noncommerical use...however, MS could simply stop selling Qt for commerical use, or make it 5,000 dollars per app sold, and, pretending we didn't have Gnome, completely destroy the Linux commerical software industry. This, BTW, is why I support Gnome. And, this is why glibc is LGPL and everything. Yes, it's better to have OSS then non-OSS software on your system, but having anything is better then nothing.
-David T. C.
While I'm tempted to make a comment about going from no sidewalks to censored-sidewalks, I won't. :)
I don't think filtered libraries are better then no libraries. I would rather have my tax money going to other things then have it go to buy censorware. I do not agree with the 'values' promoted by censorware, and I feel the constitution is on my side. I do not have to pay to protect myself and others from what they think is immoral.
I regard people who use censorware the same way I regard protestors outside gay nightclubs. They can certainly do that if they want, but don't expect me to like them for it. And certainly don't expect me to pay for it in a government institution.
And, BTW, libraries are not 'being generous to provide the connection in the first place', although it is nice when they decide a net connection is worth X books, because to those of us who know how to use a connection can probably provide X^N amount of information, where N is a number in double digits. Libraries are supposed to provide information and entertainment. They get my money, out of my paycheck, to do that. They are not supposed to use that money to restrict information and entertainment.
-David T. C.
Go into /etc/login.defs and enable
SU_WHEEL_ONLY
then add people to group 0.
-David T. C.
Hitting the reset button counts as hitting the power button. :)
-David T. C.
All public libraries belong to the government. The government is required to allow free speech in public. Not that it always does, but that's rather offtopic. :) The government has that extra responsibility, because it has a monopoly - there are no other ways for people without computer and not in college and who work without a net connection.
They are completely different. Would you prefer we have privately owned libraries? Because that's exactly how bookstores are now. Maybe it would be better, I don't know.
It's only censorship if you are forcing it on someone. Making filtered sidewalks availiable isn't forcing anything on anyone. It's providing a service, not taking away a right. Where does the constitution promise us free sidewalks?
-David T. C.
No, he meant it should be posted more often. :)
-David T. C.
...That's one reason I'm not bothered when a city decides to make speaking against it illegal on public sidewalks. Their property, their choice. When a goverment agency mandates blocking speech on all sidewalks - well, that stinks, but I'm not sure whether it's censorship or not because arguably, the public sidewalks belong to the government...
-David T. C.
Or, either of those could be used in a discussion on slashdot.org about censorship. :)
-David T. C.
Sigh. I love how stupid people claim difference in when a culture invented something show how smart it is. Hey, guess what? Inventions are invented by individuals and the culture they are in! And the culture is decided by many, many things, not intelligence. And I've suddenly realized this is a troll.
-David T. C.
In case you don't get the irony, calling an entire group of people 'bigots' is somewhat bigoted.
-David T. C.
Um, no, this would be when we didn't have a say in whether we wanted censorship, unless enough of the entire nation vote to grant exceptions to the 1st amendment.
-David T. C.
Remind me again not to write messages when I just wake up. That first paragraph was before a shower, the second after, and this you can really tell. Now I'm actually glad Netscape closed my first response. :)
-David T. C.
Damnit, I wrote a nice response to this, and Netscape for some reason closed the window. Anyway, basically, many, many bad things happen to other people. These things do not harm us. Clild porn is one of them. I do not wake up, eat breakfast, get annoyed by child porn, and go to woke. I'd never get anything done if Ipayed attention to all the bad things in the world, I have to pick a few causes and stick with them. You cause seems to be child porn, which is great, it is a worthwhile cause.
That said, the only problem with you creating a solution to get rid of child porn is hampered by the a) I mentioned and you didn't: Anyone can get on the network, and anyone can share files. If you have a solution to that, speak up. Don't wail 'What about the child porn!'. That doesn't solve anything. Also, see this for why banning child porn on Gnutella won't help anything. In fact, now that I actually think more about it, I wish so many people would pirate child porn that the entire industry collapses.
-David T. C.
And, like I said, I'm pretty certain they can, legally search cars they pull over now. They still have to pull you over for a legit reason, though.
-David T. C.